Steve McCallum

Steve McCallum comes from the beautiful outdoor paradise of British Columbia, Canada. He loves outdoor adventuring, especially canoeing, and has a B.Sc in Biology. Before coming to Thailand he worked in the Gardening/Landscaping profession in Vancouver, as well as regular preaching. The call to Thailand came quite suddenly out of the blue in March of 2011 followed by his first short term of 5 months to Thailand to explore further in fall of 2011. At the end of this, there were a number of indications that his connection with South Thailand would continue. After a couple more short terms to Thailand over the next 4 years, he began long term in Thailand in November of 2015. After 8 more months of language study, he is just beginning ministry back in South Thailand. At this time, he is planning to serve in church planting in a new, and soon to be determined location along with Dave and Lila Chang in the province of Nakhon Si Thammarat in South Thailand.

Areas of Need for Future Workers
–Right now there is a need for a Church planting team in the district of Julapon, a district of 30,000 with no known Christians. It is a hard area since there is no one main community, but is spread out. People church planting there would need to be willing to travel around the district extensively to reach the people of this district and likely will need to visit various cell groups throughout the district once people come to Christ.

It’s for the spirits, so that they don’t get confused. Because spirits travel in straight lines and this is a T-junction, that will confuse them’’ one of my neighbours replied when I asked her about the small construction in the middle of the road. A small pile of sand, ornamented with empty water bottles and...

Noi is a 38 year old lady that came to the church in Yang Sisurat for the first time during a special Christmas outreach. She was very interested and wanted to hear as much as possible about God. After her first church visit she kept coming back and it became clear that she loved reading...

I am standing in our kitchen one morning with our housekeeper Mrs. Yaa and I freeze as I hear these words but I am not sure whether I understood correctly. Translating in my head slowly, I realized I heard it right. Our neighbour is dying? “He fainted at home two days ago and has been...

‘’Wow, your Thai is really good, how many years have you been in Thailand’’ says the Thai student who sits in the back of my car. I am trying to concentrate on driving and keeping an eye out for the many potholes on the road. At the same time I am having a conversation in...

Saturday, January 13th, was National Children’s Day in Thailand. It is a day to celebrate children and many places will sponsor special free events for children on that day. Our local church participated in the celebration with our local government office. We hosted a booth where kids could play some simple games and to win...

How can you make the most of your retirement? I recently read an article by Evan Tarver listing “7 Reasons Why Americans Retire in Thailand” and it got me thinking. Tarver started his article about the benefits of retiring in Thailand by saying, “If retiring Americans are looking to maximize their retirement, it’s a good...

I have served in Thailand as a missionary for about ten years, of which the last four have been spent in Bangkok, teaching church history and missions at a seminary, assisting a Thai Christian book publisher, and helping lead a new church plant. Before that I was involved in small town church planting and evangelism...

I’m pretty sure the motorcycle taxi drivers have bets with each other about how quickly they can make it back to their waiting stations. I fully expected the wind to rip the contact lenses out of my eyes and so I vowed I’d never take a motorcycle taxi again, but Bangkok traffic can be a...

Recently I started teaching English at our local Anubaan (kindergarten). I volunteer and teach there every Friday for a few hours. Partly, I am doing this because I miss teaching in a classroom setting and it is a lovely feeling to be back in a classroom, this truly is my happy place. But more importantly,...